Gender and Sexuality

The Italian Invert

A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions to Émile Zola Edited by Michael Rosenfeld with William A. Peniston Translated by Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston

In the late nineteenth century, a young Italian aristocrat made an astonishing confession: in a series of revealing letters, he frankly described his sexual experiences with other men. The Italian Invert is the first complete, unexpurgated version in English of this remarkable queer autobiography.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20489-7 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20488-0 May 2022 256 pages 6 llus. The Shape of Sex

Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance Leah DeVun

The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200–1400 CE. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19551-5 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19550-8 2021 336 pages 40 illus.

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

Howard Chiang

Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19097-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19096-1 2021 376 pages The First Political Order

How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide Valerie M. Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen

The First Political Order is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and systematic subordination of women underlies all other institutions, with wide-ranging implications for global security and development. It offers a new paradigm for understanding insecurity, instability, autocracy, and violence.

$40.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19466-2 2020 616 pages 125 illus,